Hosted FLV Dumps: Duration Request
 

This is to all the sponsors who offer hosted FLVs:

Can you please offer a duration like this - 3:03
Instead of this - 183

Thanks!

It doesn't make sense to store duration in minutes seconds when just seconds would suffice and minutes:seconds can be displayed on the view...

Same reason every good dev I know would store a height in cm or inches rather than ft/inches...

are these correct?
http://galleries.nakednewsanchors.co...omm_011110.flv
http://galleries.nakednewsanchors.co...omm_020910.flv
http://galleries.nakednewsanchors.co...omm_021510.flv
http://galleries.nakednewsanchors.co...omm_022210.flv

Stored as 180 seconds is fine. I get it. I'm asking that on batch exports (dumps), it could look like this:

flv|title|desc|3:00|sponsor|url

It may not make sense to you because you don't use a script that displays that column exactly as it is. I do.

I can second that one

Ii prefer seconds over minutes because of the script I use, so giving us the "choice" is the only way to go.

Simple solution would be to drop the list in excel and do a find and replace on |180 with |3:00. Some scripts require the duration to be in total number of seconds. Most scripts call for completely different delimiters. It's hard to please all the affiliates all of the time but I know we do our best to get you what you need. Most sponsors do what they can to provide the tools that anybody can use. Sometimes it may take a little finagling with the provided tools section with each sponsor.

So why not mod the php (I'm guessing) script to display minutes:seconds?

<?=floor($duration / 60)?>:<?=($duration%60)?>

That doesn't account for 0 padding on seconds but that's easy enough...

It isn't the display he is concerned about... it is the import dump file.

"It may not make sense to you because you don't use a script that displays that column exactly as it is. I do."

Then just use the same logic on import... if the duration field has a : in it you don't need to do anything, if it doesn't, you convert and store in your DB that way...

What I'm getting at is this isn't something sponsors should offer, it's logic that should reside on the receiving end and it's very simplistic. If you have a custom need and you're not a programmer... Pay a dev for an hour's worth of time.

No sponsor should be changing their output format from seconds to minutes:seconds... :upsidedow

We don't even do time:

{video_url} {title} {description} {site_link} {site} {keywords}

We offer that. See sig:

Problem is, this can take a lot of time when the durations vary. I just did a search and replace for 300 flvs. Each of them had times ranging from 160 seconds to 220 seconds. It took a while.

All I'm looking for is a choice on export. Let me dump the files as 180 seconds, 3 mins, 03:00, etc.

My bad you were right :upsidedow

I misunderstood that part.

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Very nice!
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